The City of Boulder invites community members to share ideas for what stories should be told and interpreted along a planned “healing trail” for the Fort Chambers / Poor Farm Site, one of the city’s most historically significant open space areas.
Please Join Us!
- A community workshop that will be facilitated by Ernest House Jr., director of the Center for Tribal and Indigenous Engagement at the Keystone Policy Center. It will be held from 3 to 5 p.m., Friday, March 21, at Boulder Council Chambers, 1777 Broadway.
- An online submission form that will accept ideas and stories for the healing trail through Sunday, March 30.
The idea for the healing trail was developed in collaboration with the Arapaho and Cheyenne Tribal Representatives during a previous planning process and identified in the site’s concept plan. The concept plan provides recommendations for how the city will care for land with a community connection to the Sand Creek Massacre. Community input will guide the design of an “interpretative experience” for the healing trail, a place for education, reflection, healing, gathering and native plantings.
The city will host a community workshop and has created an online form to welcome ideas and stories for what should be told along the healing trail. The healing trail and its interpretive experience is a key component of the concept plan that is guided by a shared city-Tribal Representative vision of “Heal the Land; Heal the People.”